The scene
A one-room schoolhouse in morning light. A young teacher stands at the front, hat just hung up, facing prim rows of shining morning faces and bright, inquisitive eyes, trying not to look as nervous as she is.
The style
A Dutch golden-age schoolroom painting: warm browns and golds, a single shaft of window light and deep shadow, the stillness of a 17th-century interior.
The inspiration
From Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery (1909), Chapter 5, where Anne enters the schoolroom for the first time as its teacher.
How it's made
A print of a digital artwork in the style of a soft painted illustration in morning light, not an original. Each carries my printed Chapter & Scene signature.